PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY B RITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. "The British Whig 84TH. YEAR, Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. President t G. Elidott A. Guild ... Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. Telephones: Business Office ... . Editorial Rooms Job Office eve SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) Ome year, delivered In city One year, If paid In advance ..... One year, by mall to rural offices One year, to United States ..... (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash One year, If not paid in advance Ome ear to United States . Six and three months pro MONTREAL REPR F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave F.R. Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bic Atisched is one of the best job printing offices tn Canada. The circulation of THE PRITISH WHIG is authention ted by the B C Audit Bureau of Circulations. ee MEN OF COURAGE. True Liberalism will not suffer se Liberals have the courage of beliefs. Mr. Mr. Pardee and Guthrie have chosen to follow the path marked out by their concep- tions of Fellow-members of the House may choose to go in an duty. opposite direction from equally hon- orable motives, but it is to be hoped that Liberals who share the views of Mr. Pardee and Mr. Guthrie will also share thein fearlessness and candor. oronto Globe, William Proudfoot, M.P.P., refers Hon Ww. J "as the the On- to the Hanna bra government in tario," a former government, net present Mr occupy a seat in the-present en binab. the Hanna does not SAVIOURS OF THE COUNTRY. F. F. Pardee, M.P. for fs one of the strong men of the Com Lambton, mons, one of half a dozen had he war, who, they been invited early in would have * made a na- tional government equal to the re the day All the want has heen of men who could quirements of along understand the great issues, will that no pelty or men of vision, of power, of party dampen, resolution, thing could divert or men big enough in their comprehension and strong enough in their purpose to aceom plish the work demanded from them The indictment of the gover by Mr. Pardee was direct and em phatie. There had been defective leadership, or a want of it, a leth- argy that was deplorable, blunders without number, and partisanship of nment the grossest kind. But recalled or condoned by and most inexcusable the past could not be undone. It © could be vigorous, honest, con secrated service on the part of the] government. and parliament No- thing can be gained at this juncture by cavilling and fault-finding. Much can be gained by devotion and and of purpose, with one object in view, of sending to France energy persistency the reserves which Canada's army may suffer re- verses or defeats. Mr. Pardee's was a speech with spirit in it. Every word was spoken with intense earnestness. His voice wag vibrant with emotion, and the House regardless of- party, seems to have been under its spell. Here was such a leader as the people and -- | cheerfulnes liberals | without | SOME OF THE WAR'S EFFE Egbert Har 2 Belgian journa CHEERFULNESS AS A TONIC, Hon. Charl I I I | House « 'omit intimated | Writing to the Ae ork whether the mil gaged in the war, and underg: periences without a parallel | parlors and wing pi 1 I closed Why stop there empt the parks, , and plea every Mr. Murp gaiet f the n lias a tend jominat He But they must be Pruss Har {Germans in review at bX the spirit that club that | militarism which is {origin and character fears the iprehen 14. realized how utterly the , {devoid of , | British under Kitchener army plinée | without f tiers, he thinks, |to the exter nev be m nilitarist + citizen will Mr i + +} 3 stopped | {tasks without some | hip. But will ir civil 1 impairment as » enactment He would a {the result of the war That remains an end to the hilarity He ; to be seen. Only time will reveal, as would have the citizens live in al " | 1 {the men are released from military | state of perpetual gloom, as the only | i * |engagements, | one that befits the day. Some of the what the war has done 1 ¥ = f iotv i { to them as members of society. | foolishness and waste and improvid- | ne : -------------- EDITORIAL NOTES. Another conservative office holder mourning, as|pas retired be ib red | port conscription J. H 1 resigned, | | ence could be cut out pr »fitably, but | | a little sunshine is a glor | Britain { it had occasion to do, when her com- ous thing. | went into ause he cannot sup Rainville, amid no doubt. He munitives were bereaved by the| jou peaker, has | first dreadful slaughters of the war | But had these complete {many sighs and regrets given way to | had been allowed to lift her people ked his job ly, and some- | eg them | Mr er, M.P., (St | ), hinted that conscription in Que- | thing not Gauth Hyacin out of their sorrow and despondency, |the A little | bec 1 | would participate In good and | he left the House and he then they would have gone mad. woulki cause ructions, 3 is like a tonie and them, and Gauthier is not, does | for the nerves, and some life | however, a not loc a bit da mirthfulness must be fighting man He Much that is called | including perm diversion, ngerous. Post, | ever, horse-racing The Regina (which was con ervative | and it | --it attendant gambling, and some of t | | | now is independent), the a | vulgar shows of the day, could and sed egtimates that opposition will {have the whole of twelve representa very wisely suppre If Hon. Chas. Murphy had hi way [tives in the next legislature of Sas- there would be no fall fairs They | katchewan These suggest the | tivert Murphy thinks | time-worn ditty of "The Lonesome effect. Mr. | Melody." Order of Fg will the mind, and | {that is a reprehensible | Bushell should give him a talk yresters that | The C | did not adopt the scale of rates -------------- anadian A SOLDIER BADLY USED. Prof teithdorf. of Woodstock, | was presented at the many with | Hamilton, but a committee was ap | prepare a the the end of the actuarily | was for {the war years connected college and scale, offered {vies he could by speaking at recruit there, the early in the |pointed to ser- | adoption. of which at | year makes the Order As the descendant of | sound. Canada in | ountry what {ing meetings |a Saxon who came to - the United Sta Controller The liquor men of Food would not do, | 1866, in order that it fdorf was suspected of being. untrue Jin the Allies' {difficulty in jfasor Prussian Reith-| tes Hoover's plea that it {in the interest of recruiting, to stop selling beer until it had to escape {ism, and all implied, approve of cause, and had some that. dis-| brewing and been proven that the country wanted this. Why liquor men applaud him? living down He had an offer to with the wouldn't the serve {American army in its fight against [the Jluns, but friends advised that ho enllst as a Canadian, and, going ™ Fnglapd, offer to gefvs in the of Oddfellows? That is the an fields of activity nouncement The Rebekahs . have him there In heen actively identified with the 1.0. Halifax. He there |attached, for a time, to the Intelli Women as members of the Order many larger whicl | | we re open to khaki | O.F. for forty years, but not as mem- bers of the same lodges with men. It is this the C.O.0.F. is try- ing as an experiment {he reached was | gence Department, and later to a lo- | cal office, | lowed to go overseas He was not [told why. ! For weeks he | military but he wags not issue of the Bilingualism is an Saskatchewan election. is that English shall predominate in The first thing now has been doing The demand duty of a kind, | strained in his movements, suggest ling that he is to some extent a pris [oner He has that | win confidence | military and, re {the public schools. we know the common for a suppression of French outside of Quebec Apti-conserip tion is helping towards this end credentials will respect and any where, and vet for wecks he has been Halifax without sympathized detained at without status A A A AAA A AAA AAA ANA {and pay, with the | demand will become| PUBLIC OPINION Here's to Them. Brantford Cou Tr) (Brantford ministers desire to d in the various conscription ording to age Good for Go Together. wdsor Re man power goes | will h to support t dependents. require conscr.ptic n and t wealt A New Version. nge) I le gives a new version to a far s saying, showing that all it ne was pro- punctuation: *America is, fight." per proud to Good Appointment. (Toronto Star) A Canadian has come to the front as commander of the Canadian forces, by merit, and the appoint- ment witli be popular in Canada, and, we believe, in our army. An Added Burden. (New York Evening P The frightful cost of winning war is brought home afresh to the French and British peoples by the news that the Americans in the en- I tente armies are introducing the abit of chewing gum the Trouble Goes On. (Montreal Gazette) seventy-two Sinn Fein clubs recently established in Ireland in tend to work in opposition to «the local branches of the United Irish League, it is believed. ¥rom this it would appear that Ireland is to have its internal troubles no matter what the resuit of the Irigh-conference. € \ A Great Squeeze, (Mgmitreal Herald) Mr. Hoover states that in the Un- ited States food speculators have ex- tracted from the American n excess of normal profits $50,000,- 000 a month 'for the last five "months. Judging from comparative prices, we should say that the pro- portion of excess profits extracted by | food speculators in Canada is much i higher. The convention In - MUST ATONE FOR FAILURE BY CONDUCT | | | | 1. I. Pardee, MP n 'the Commons "Sir, this is not the time for party recrimination. I have desired and endeavored to Keep absolutely away from even the flavor of it. us be quite fair, let us be quite frank with ourselves. Mistakes have been made There has been lack of re cruiting leadership; there has been lack of organization: there has been | lethargy; there have been blunders l'in administration, and, T am sorry | to say, there has been the strongest | sort of partizanship in this crisis. | Dp here has been real failure to rise #» the possibilities and the necessi- ties of national and patriotic service. | We have not done it; we have not {got "out "of the rut; we have nol | raised ourselves by our own boot- | straps, as we sought to do. What has been done cannot 'be undone. { But the mistakes, the blunders, the| | lethargy, the failure to give leader- | ship----matters which more than any- { thing else have contributed to the |situation which confronts us now must be atoned for by the most vig- | or, honest and consecrated conduct | of Government and Parliament from | this time on. - "The Canadian people must be as- sured that hencgforward the men in A a a friends, but given no relief y land no satisfaction At last he the Premier and received an answer to the effect that his case would be by his addressed a letter to Rippling Rhymes looked into. Prof. Reithdorf has es- tablished a standing as a loyal Cana dian. His name may be against him but" that is the only thing, and it should not keep the militia depart | ment from doing common justice to the man put tions, worn by shark. But sane and circum cart, harsh Kaiser Bill Mr. Pardee's objection to the refer- endum is that it would kill conscrip- tion, and he is right What could be done about it if the people voted nay? farm and bare, man state once THE POWER OF EXAMPLE, whoop no hymn Miss Rankin, the only woman in | Congress, and feeling lonesome enough sometimes, must realize now {how serious - was the effect of her {first vote and the tears which she {shed over it. The question was the | adoption of President Wilson's ulti- | matum with regard to the war. It hate) our work will not avail. A A A A PA SP AN NO HATRED . Although we'd can that kaiser skate, the kron prinz ¢ as we go. forth to serap. the Hun, no vengeance we'll demand; we'll calmly away the gun in our umbrella stand. measures we'll away. set the kron prinz pitching hay on some sequestered | For Hindenburg a lonely rock, an island bleak where gulls | and lay eggs in his hair. and beef hap, we chant no bitter hymn of hate, When we have polished off Some na- pain and toil, may possibly remark that William should be boiled in oil, his son fed to a| never be able to there's no hatred in our heart, spect; when we've upset Bill's apple reject. We'll put old where he can do no harm. and around his head wil flock, We wish to see the Ger- » more a happy land, and we shall of hate, when old Red Bill is canned. But she must still be pounded down till Bill no more shall own his ermine, scepter, sword and crown, his scrofula and throne. be in a crate, Pop Hindenburg in jail, or (though we sing no hymn of The kron prinz must --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN | too, | people | | 7% New Panama Hats we're press had been calling for without | meant retaliation on the Germans for expectation that he would so soon be | their contempt of American warnings found. The government clearly miss- {against submarine attacks and erim- ed its opportunity in not inviting'|inal loss of life. Very likely she had Pardee and Guthrie and Graham and | personal distaste for wars She was Clark, two or three years ago, {without the moral support which one to join in a national effort in direct- |i5 expécted to get by fraternizing ing the war. Already the suggestion | with fellows in the political caucus of Mr. Pardee, for a last and tre- | Suddenly she was confronted: with mendous drive in voluntary enlist- {the demand for a yea or a nay, and went, before enforcing conserip- | in Wear and trembling, she. voted tion, in order to show what can be nay. Over in England her experience i is being acted upon, and when | was quoted, only this week, as an Graham and Clark have spoken, in |example of what the country would the beginning of mext week, and have through the enfranchisement of made their triumphant appeals, the | women. Mentally Miss Rankin will people will have no doubt as to who | never show weakness again: She will are the real leaders. {remember that hers is the voice of Without the aid of the liberal [the thousands she represents and leaders, and liberal party generally, that when she vetes "she does so in as Hon. Arthur Meighen has admit- [the name of the common ! people. ted, conscription, thrown unexpect- | Leave it to the women to get used edly and suddenly into the political | to their surroundings if they become arena, and as Mr. Pardee avers, | members of parliament. They can- without the usual notice and educa- [not make a bigger show eof them- tion, would have failed, and that, at [Selves than some men who are pos- this time, would have been the |ing for pictures e 3 re Ie pub- greatesg 'of all calamities. lic lite of anil ' by | FIND FRANKIE 5 NOT SICK AT . HE ALL. HES | | { | { A A A A A A A AAA A AAA A At AA ee eA NA AlN Style Craft Suits | Special Value at A A AA AA AAA AA AAA The Alton Pinch Back Style.. Fabrics are neat, small checks and pencil stripes in cheviot and worsteds. Sizes 33 to 40. The Biltmore fine English and Scotch cheviots. Sizes 34 to 46. em a a | . a Neatly tailored, three button sack. Suit . fabrics are | Sante style as hat shown here. Fine quality Panama. Special value .. .. .. .. .. .. .. the Government and in Parliament the 'mendous responsibility of energies, all their endeavors, to the they demand that 'zens shall fight." ing.) r | PAY OF ORDINARY CANADIAN SOLDIER | ® Toronto Globe The man at the front should have | a better assurance that his sacrifice | the undue | dependents at The soldier in the field re- ceives much of his remuneration in rations, of clothing and of such supplies as he i with- in behalf of the and { great cause has not | hardships on his home, Empire entailed goods. The price of is accorded may vary widely | out personally affecting him, but he is seriously affected by the ceives The money payments to himself and his family should be ad- justed according to purchase household supplies Other injustices have been prompt ly remedied when pointed out. Aj bonus of three months' pay has | been allowed to every enlisted man | will avert the repetition of cases of | hardship resulting through no fault | of the rejected men. | separation payments rates should be equally prompt if undeserved hardships avoided. To the soldier and his de | pendents we owe a deht we shall discharge. That ghould make us all the more will- | ing to make an honest effort in that | direction. Dollars have fallen in | value, and we should give propor- tionately more to them to those who are making sacrifices the cause of liberty. L OH CANADA me, And the bullets part my hair, And the sausages are missing With just half an inch to spare; As I grovel on the trench mats, Cursing Fritz and eating mud, And wondering is the next one Will prove to be a dud; "Tis then 1 think of Canada, And all it means to me, And vow that if 1 had the chance, I'd swim the bloomin' sea. I feel safer,in a rest camp; War is joke enough back there, Even if the kultyred vermin Strafe me from their hidden lair. Gee! the beauty sleep I forfeit, And the torture that I bear, Just because the bath officials Hand us real live underwear. Insect powder--it is useless; Sure, they eat it from my hand; Guess | need a change of climate, Such as this Canadian brand. "Just a verse from the tremches,™ writes the optimistic Canadian sol- dief who sends the Whig the above happy verses. . War Baving Certificates. Ottawa, June 22. War savings certificates are growing rapidly. During the last thrée months over 100,000 had been sold, involving $7,000,600. men who have assumed the tre- calling But let| .itizens to the colors by compulsion, will themselves consecrate all their ability, all their cause for which their fellow-citi- (Prolonged cheer- lower | purchasing power of the cash he re- | their power to | Adjustment of | and pension are to he) in behalf of! | When the shells are bursting near) | Bathing Caps New line of Bathing Caps in fancy colors and combinations. Best qualities 25¢ to $1.25 See our assortment of Trav- elling Rolls and Cases. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 183 Princess « 'Phone 343 Everything For Sick Room COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! 4 | honorably discharged overseas. This | 4 On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for" Cash Only. BOOTH & CO. Phone 133. | | Carpenter and Builder W. R. 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